The Office of Alumni and Parent Relations
invites you to a lecture by Dr. Skip Burkle,
Saint Michael's Class of 1961 alumnus and
2009 honorary degree recipient, on
"The Human Cost of War."
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
7:00 p.m.
McCarthy Recital Hall
Saint Michael's College
Dr. Burkle has had a distinguished career
in international emergency and disaster relief.
He has consulted on many humanitarian emergencies
and large-scale disasters in Asia, Africa, and
Eastern Europe.
Dr. Burkle served as joint Civil Military Liaison
for the Kurdish Crisis in southern Turkey, northern
Iraq and Baghdad; he was also a UN Delegate to the
3rd Somalia Conference in Ethiopia. In 1996, he headed
up a global health assessment team for the International
Rescue Committee in the former Yugoslavia. In Iraq,
in the lead-up to the war in 2003, he was the Senior
Medical Officer on the Disaster Assistance Response
Team for USAID; he was also the interim minister
of health in Iraq during the relief phase of the crisis.
Dr. Burkle currently serves as Senior Scholar and
Scientist and a Visiting Professor at the Center for
International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies
at Johns Hopkins, and Senior Fellow, Harvard
Humanitarian Initiative at the Harvard School of
Public Health. He has published over 100 scientific
articles, abstracts, and book chapters, along with
four books.
This event is co-sponsored by Saint Michael's College
and the Vermont Global Health Coalition.